Where is Iraq?

This is hardly surprising, the US has allways been fairly isolationist, what with having the lowest rate of passport ownership in the west etc.

however some of the slightly more disturbing locations selected by the survey included britain, nicuragua, Finland, and surprisingly mexico (although
one suspects that may have just been someones wishfull thinking)

that poll doesn't surprise me that much - there's always a poll like that - but what do you expect? We've got people blaming McDonalds because
they're fat. Lupe - do you need a passport to travel around Europe - say if you were to go to France or Germany? - just wondering.

ne1 watch rick mercers talkin to americans basically its a show where they talk to americans and ask them questions but on the show they only show the
dumb ppl on the survey what kind of ppl were asked??

"Lupe - do you need a passport to travel around Europe - say if you were to go to France or Germany? - just wondering. "

you need a passport to travell from England as were not part of the EU yet, however I'm fairly sure travell between places like france and spain no
longer requires one, I have an odd feeling that last time I was in portugal there was a big debate running because they still needed passports
(possibly a throw back to when Lizben was a closed city) cant recall.

so I guess that would be a plus of the EU - being able to travel all around Europe, cool! We don't need passports to go to Mexico or Canada. I go up
to Niagara Falls often - if you tell them at the border you're on the way to their casino they seem let you go through quicker

see now this illustrates my problem with the US wanting to invade iraq. you ask a 100 americans whether they should attack iraq a lot of them will
say "yes!". ask those same 100 americans to point it out on a map and they get it wrong. smacks of ignorance. got to make you ask whether
they're the right people to ask the first question to ...

Our media real does not have a postion.They just reportwhat is going on.There are individuals that have opinions,both pro and con,but the news seems
to be pretty neutral.And much like this board the opinions are about 50-50.

As far as the topic goes,I thinkit is sad.A few years ago they did a poll of collage students, I think it was like 40 or 50% didn't know where
Chicago was.When I was done laughing I realized how sad that was.

And to think as a kid in elementary schoolI almost always had 10's (=A+'es) for topography... I knew all the (U.S. & Canadian) states, most of the
state capitals, practically all countries, almost the capitals and where they were...

Although that was the time before the fall of the Berlin wall...

We had to memorize them all... But I had fun doin it.
All this in the little caribbean island of Aruba...

It's true that they do seem to turn out these "surveys" as regularly as clockwork -perhaps it's to stimulate the Christmas market for educational
toys and books and software.
However, I find it intriguing that in some states, those responsible for the awesome achievements of the public school system are trying to make it
very hard indeed for parents in despair who are opting for "home schooling".

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